by William Palmer (Robinson £20, 262pp)
The size of my monthly Majestic Wine bill suggests author William Palmer is not wrong when he says that writers ‘psychologically slippery’ at the best of times are particularly prone to the joys and pitfalls of grain and grape.
Booze, ‘at least at the outset, is hugely enjoyable’, Palmer says correctly. It is ‘an excellent buffer against social boredom,’ and any other sort of boredom.
Drawing on the descriptions by Anthony Burgess and Kingsley Amis, In Love With Hell evokes the idyll currently denied us the traditional street-corner pub: the frosted panes of glass and etched mirrors in the Saloon Bar, the ‘constant hubbub of conversation’ and the landlord calling out the greatest six words in the English language, ‘Yes Sir, what will you have?’
Locked up in March: 12 Dorset criminals jailed for total of more than XXyears CRIMINALS put behind bars in April for Dorset offences include three young thugs who burgled a family home, a drug dealer who peddled Class As while on bail and a robber who threatened shop staff with a syringe. The courts are dealing with more and more cases, including jury trials, as the national lockdown easing continues. The list below includes 12 offenders that were put behind bars by judges last month. Their combined sentences totalled 54 years and and two weeks imprisonment. Some of them could be released on licence part way through their time behind bars, while several were issued with extended licence periods as they were deemed to be dangerous offenders .
Spotlight: Limerick’s fine art tradition
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Limerick has had famous artists in the past. So, before we come to consider Michael Collins (Miceál Ó Coileáin) let’s look at who came before him and in so doing see where Ó Coileáin fits in that continuum. Michael lives and works in both Limerick and Barcelona. I spoke to him on the phone recently in Barcelona and I’m delighted to report that it was raining there and sunny here in Limerick!
Timothy Collopy
Timothy Collopy was born in Limerick in the mid-eighteenth century. His first trade was as a baker’s apprentice. His talent for art was noticed from a young age and he was sent to Rome to study. He was mostly known as a religious painter though he also worked as a portrait painter and restorer. Following his death in London in 1811 some of his works were auctioned in Christies Auction Rooms. One of his paintings, ‘The Ascension,’ can be viewed in the Augustinian Church on O’Connell
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William Palmer, 23 and of Wisteria Drive, Verwood, was jailed for child sex offences A MAN who groomed a girl and forced her to perform a sex act on him has been jailed. William Palmer, 23, “manipulated” the child over several months by exchanging explicit photographs on messaging app Snapchat before committing the sexual touching offence. Palmer, of Wisteria Drive, Verwood, was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison at Bournemouth Crown Court after he admitted charges of engaging in sexual communication with a child and engaging in non-penetrative sexual activity with a child under the age of 16. Judge Jonathan Fuller QC told the defendant that he “exploited” the teenager and “pressured” her into sending intimate pictures after he first sent an image of male genitalia.